“He lost three months” – Time

The internal documents nail the extraordinary commissioner Domenico Arcuri: he lost three months in intensive care. Giovanna Faggionato writes it in an Il Domani article explaining why Italy arrived without intensive care in the second wave of Coronavirus. In July the Ministry of Health sent him the projects of the Regions, the commissioner delivered the delegations for the works only on October 9. “For more than two months – we read – the plans of the regions to reorganize the hospitals have been gathering dust in the hands of the emergency commissioner Domenico Arcuri. Two months that were also the best time to renew the emptied hospital structures thanks to the slowdown of infections in summer ”.

The manager already receives the plans for six regions on July 3: Abruzzo, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Marche, Umbria, Veneto and the two autonomous provinces of Trento and Bolzano. “On July 29 – reads Il Domani – the Court of Accounts ends its part. According to the documents of the Ministry of Health, at the end of the month the regions are informed of the sealing. At this point the works could have started but the plans remain stationary “. The local administrations have repeatedly requested the proposal to have the delegation to be able to manage autonomously and start the works. “All the procedures were done within the deadline, then the one who had to act was the extraordinary commissioner”, explains Giovanni Monchiero, coordinator of the working group that developed the Piedmont plan.